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DEFINITION: n. A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say. v. To talk in a painfully slow manner.
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Droneprone
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: drone/prone
Sentence: Pierre Pantperhog was known among family, friends, and foes alike as a dithering "droneprone" dude.
Etymology: drone + prone
Verbalaze
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: ver-bal-laze
Sentence: John is a notorious verbalazer. If he gets the chance to trap you into a conversation, you might as well abandon all hope of being on time for the rest of the day. You're trapped into hearing about his daughter's dance recital and his mother's gallstones whether you like it or not.
Etymology: Verbalize: verbose; express in words + laze: kill or waste time
Jabbler
Created by: toralora
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Paul is a typical jabbler. He told a short and unimportant story in 2 hours.
Etymology:
Lowgear
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: lowgear
Sentence: Just let him talk, he is talking in lowgear
Etymology: low and gear as in gearbox
Debilerate
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: de-bill-er-ate
Sentence: Doug suffered from debilitating deliberation. He was dibilerate.
Etymology: debilitating deliberation
Slothmouth
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: slôθmouθ
Sentence: Whenever Tim has trouble sleeping, he goes to his TV and turns on the local government access channel. He has his own name for the reporter who covers the city council. He calls him Yawn Sleeperson. Five minutes with this slothmouth is sure to bring on slumber. If he is lucky he can stumble to bed just before he nods off, otherwise it’s another morning waking up in rumpled clothing with a kink in his neck.
Etymology: sloth (a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws) + mouth (the opening in the lower part of the human face, surrounded by the lips, through which food is taken in and from which speech and other sounds are emitted)
Boreatone
Created by: eddie
Pronunciation: bor/a/toan
Sentence: Steve "The Slug" Jones speaks in such a boreatone manner that he has been known to talk people to sleep.
Etymology: boredom + monotone
Dialaudler
Created by: sonic101
Pronunciation: di-a-laud-ler
Sentence: Rebecca just goes on and on, always being a dialaudler
Etymology: dialog+daudle=dialaudler
Putterpatterer
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: puuuuuuuh-tur-paaaaaaaaa-tur
Sentence: The patient had the misfortune to get an EMT who was a putterpatterer; by the time his rescuer could utter the phrase "Are you choking?", he had already passed out.
Etymology: putter, patter
Insomniyack
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/som/ni/yak
Sentence: Chris was a motivational speaker at sleep deprivation conferences - his sessions always sold out first
Etymology: insomnia + yack
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COMMENTS:
I likes this one. - erasmus, 2007-03-02: 10:39:00
thanks erasmus - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:46:00
when i need to sleep its hard to decide between an imsomniyak and a saidative - rikboyee, 2007-03-02: 17:06:00
I've found tranquspielizers quite effective. - petaj, 2007-03-02: 20:19:00
Narcotalks work too! - Discoveria, 2007-03-02: 21:35:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James
BMott - 2007-03-09: 00:10:00
Loved this one!
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James
Hey Verbotomists, Jasper Fforde is sending us signed copy of The Eyre Affair for the top writer this week. I guess Fforde did not want to see his heroine, Thursday Next, trapped in verbalaze of boratoric snailocution. ~ James